Bob wrote:I use vinegar on my hands after working with concrete, but never on the playa. All I've used on the playa is water for washing, quickly followed by Neutrogena hand cream, which is good for about two weeks in my experience, before I get cracks on my hands, face, asshole, etc.

^Rhino! wrote:...Diphosphorus pentoxide goes in apatite, a common igneous accessory mineral and detrital in this case. Titanium dioxide is probably rutile or anatase, also common igneous accessories....

Whoo-doggie, Rhino! Them is purty words! You use your mouth purtier than a three-dollar French whore! I'm all wet over here.

Dougly...I'm not coming to meet 'n greet if you keep talking like that!

Well I sure the hell am! I'm not going to be getting all hot and bothered without a little relief after all the foreplay.

Rhino, good to see you here rocking our fucking eplaya world

Excuse me Ma'am, your going to feel a small prick._______________________________________

Don't laugh, I have the distinction of having drilled into one of the Center Camp electrical grid lines 9 or 10 years ago. Having rainbow spaghetti come up in the auger when you're setting posts for a stupid shade structure in a vast desert is not a pleasant feeling.

I ran a large trencher long ago for a company........cut a 500 pair phone cable once.......and, a 2" high pressure gas line......both, location errors on the utilities part......hitting the gas line, was, "exciting"......the hiss was loud, and, the smell strong.....I jumped and ran.......

on the cable, like you said, the multi colored spaghetti, was un nerving.......

For that project we did an airknife overbore of our borehole to 5'. But that is a pretty new development. Not too long ago we would just go off the location markings. After hitting a few utilities we began to take pictures of our boring location in relation to nearby markings. Then we began the overboring. Most of our projects were state funded and they would not pay for the overboring, but we did it anyway, especially with the military lines nearby.

"Don't laugh, I have the distinction of having drilled into one of the Center Camp electrical grid lines 9 or 10 years ago. Having rainbow spaghetti come up in the auger when you're setting posts for a stupid shade structure in a vast desert is not a pleasant feeling."

I've excavated in the default world for nearly 18 yrs., and I've never understood utility strikes, never having had one (and I've done literally thousands of borings over the years.) Is BRC a member of one-call in the state of Nevada?

we were trenching through a town nearby once.
The boss decided, since we were working overnight (to avoid traffic on the main st.), that, we'd just cut the clay sewer lines, and, repair as we went by...........it worked fine, mostly, since, most businesses and the few homes were gone or asleep........

we sent the new guy down to repair the line from the theater.......just as the "midnight matinee" ended...........chuckling..........

Bob, try again. You've been listening to Ian Kluft again, have you? The whole story there is NOT pretty. The guy gets credit for trying, but he has found NOTHING that would indicate any kind of strike, let alone the kind of strike he's talking about. He's following the rule that geologists of true stripe try to avoid, i.e 'I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't BELIEVED it. '

I did a post on this on the Burningman tribe some time back about the proposed meteorite impact in the Black Rock Desert. The guy has even been publicized in [i]Discover[/i] magazine, in the December 2008 issue right here: